International Journal of Epidemiology 2001;30:1315-1316
© International Epidemiological Association 2001
Perinatal epidemiology |
Commentary: Efficacy of prenatal treatment for toxoplasmosis: a possibility that cannot be ruled out
Laboratoire de la Toxoplasmose, Institut de Puériculture, Paris, France.
In their retrospective cohort study of 554 mother-child pairs, Gilbert et al. did not detect a significant effect of prenatal treatment on the risk of vertical transmission of toxoplasmosis.1 This result is not surprising as there were very few untreated women and the analysis of no treatment versus pyrimethamine-sulphadiazine was restricted to half of the cohort who
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